I have recently been reading an excellent book by Matt Mason titled The Pirate’s Dilemma. This book talks about how youth culture is reinventing capitalism.The book is very well written and researched. The core theme behind the book is how the culture of piracy (that’s you and me) causes change in the capitalist world. While…
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How Digg fought spammers and increased page views in one fell swoop
Back on September 19, 2007 Digg launched a new profile system. The idea was to put a little more social into the Digg system. Some people liked the changes while others did not. A common thought at the time was that Digg made the changes to increase its Page View metric. This thought is based…
The Digg Facelift – 1 week later
Back on September 19, 2007 the Digg blog posted an article by Kevin Rose in which he told the Digg community that some changes were coming. These changes were going to be in the area of Digg profiles. Later that same evening Digg went down for maintenance and when the site came back up more…
New Digg says, “You must watch videos!!!”
OK, is this some sort of joke? Why is Digg forcing me to include at least one category of videos? After the last site redesign Digg removed videos from the front page all together. Now that they have added them back they are forcing me to include at least one category of videos in my…
Digg: Open up the Bury Data Petition
Attention all current and former digg users. There is an online petition for you to sign if you believe that digg should open up the bury information. To: Digg Staff Digg has become a slow RSS feed for big media companies. In all honesty anyone could setup an RSS feed with a few of the…
Kevin Rose finally grows a pair
‘There has been a lot of trouble at Digg in the last 24 hours. Some stories were posted that tell all about hacking the security for HD-DVD. At first Digg removed these stories and Jay Adelson blogged on the Digg blog about why. This then blew up in their face and numerous stories began to…
Are your Digg friends digging you up or down?
A while back Digg announced some changes to their algorithm in regards to fixing their perceived gaming problem. There was a lot of shouting and back and forth on the subject but, eventually, things quieted down and people moved on. In the intervening time I reported on a few cases of reverse gaming where people…
Who controls Digg?
In the past, the top digg users were accused of controlling digg. Digg responded to this by dropping the top users list. Some folks still think that the digg front page is controlled by a small minority of users. Well, they are partially right in that belief. Not right because the small group controls the…
Has Digg integrated duggmirror?
This is strange. I was just taking a quick look over on Digg and after clicking on a story that was posted on a blog the direct Digg link took me right to duggmirror! Digg LinkStory LinkDuggmirror link This is very strange because the direct link to the story works fine! The blog is not…
I have a clone?
I must be real popular on the social bookmarking/news site I used to use because I recently encountered a clone of myself! Yes, someone on Digg is using my avatar! My profileMy clone’s profile Though I do not own the image I used to create my avatar, I have been using it all over the…